Surveying the Data Management Vendor Market: Methodology

The data management market today comprises many products and technologies, but comparatively few that include all of the components and constructs enumerated above. To demonstrate the differences, we surveyed the offerings of vendors that frequently appear in trade press accounts, industry analyst reports and web searches. Our list originally included the following companies:

Avere Systems*

Axaem

CTERA*

Clarity NOW Data Frameworks

Cloudian HyperStore

Cohesity*

Egnyte

ElastiFile*

Gray Meta Platform

IBM*

Komprise

Nasuni*

Panzura*

Primary Data*

QStar Technologies*

Qubix

Seven10

SGI DMF

SGL

ShinyDocs

StarFish Global

StorageDNA*

STRONGBOX Data Solutions*

SwiftStack Object Storage*

Talon*

Tarmin*

Varonis

Versity Storage Manager

Only a subset of these firms responded to our requests for interview (denoted with asterisks) which we submitted by email either to the point of contact identified on their websites or in press releases. After scheduling interviews, we invited respondents to provide us with their “standard analyst or customer product pitch” – usually delivered as a presentation across a web-based platform – and we followed up with questions to enable comparisons of the products with each other. We wrote up our notes from each interview and submitted them to the vendor to ensure that we had not misconstrued or misunderstood their products.
These interviews were updated to ensure their accuracy when comments were received back from the respondents. Following are those discussions.